Graphics bug perhaps? :06:

Taiko drums are awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarfBcGtZFg
It may come from a terrible film but the soundtrack for the Japanese was just epic. The taiko drums make this piece. :up:

The Hunted is a B++ movie set in modern day Japan with Christopher Lambert and John Lone and some decent Taiko music

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113360/

Damnit Arc, my hype for the game was low until I read the entries you posted. Will have to get online and read through the full encyclopedia.

Indeed it does. :yeah:

And a good fight scene on the Shinkansen. :yep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmBGgEkFpg
(Bloody)

The girl on the bad side has a nice Daishó arrangement. :up:

It kinda fills me with hope, swung me back around a little to a more positive attitude. Mechanics look good from what I can glimpse from there, but in the end the experience is really determined by the AI. Life-long allies backstabbing for no reason, armies marching back and forth aimlessly, etc; bad AI would just ruin it.

Especially agents seem far more usefull (few more types, few more actions). And that attention to detail, fleshing out features just a little further, that's the positive impression I get from reading the entries.


Also, in case there was still doubt, those hero units they talked about are the same thing as in the other games: exceptionally skilled but smaller elite units. They're listed in the S2:TW-pedia too. :)

(Unless they throw a curve ball and have single-man super-hero units, but I kinda doubt that. Never know though.)

Umm it was my security system. It's fixed now :DL

Goody. Get a much better impression of the game reading that than actually playing the demo imho.

I've changed my paid order to get the limited Edition. It has just been listed on Play Asia and it's cheaper than the US standard edition.

Strageyinformer review

Only complains seem to be random CTD's.

One finnish site reviewed Shogun and they complained about uneven AI (AI acts a bit wacky from time to time but occasionally performs quite well)

Here be another one: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...-war-shogun-2/

Sooo tempting...

*cursor moves toward 'pre-order' button*

BANZAAAI!

*click*

Ha, gotcha. That was the right mouse button. :O:


Right, so... reviews are positive, particularly it seems the AI is not disapointing, though I'd still like to know how diplomacy works and whether or not long time allies will still backstab you, even if it means their demise.

And then I have the option to grab the limited edition for 40,-. Normally the standard edition goes for 50,-. Pretty sweet pre-order deal...

Think I'll wait till 14th. Nothing negative pops up, grab the pre-order then. :hmmm:

I must say the demo performance is not great.

The fps drops to below 20 when zooming in large group action.

My Specs

i5 661 3.33Ghz 2 core 4 thread
GTX 560 Ti
4x2Gb DDR 3

Does the demo use a single core, two or four?